What's the best country overall?

[jackdude101]

I thought I'd do some independent research as to what really is the best country in the world in terms of hard power, soft power, and quality of life. I used the scores from twelve different, separate studies that each covered a specific ranking, such as national GDP and human development index, and simply combined them all. I have the country, their ranking, and their overall score listed below and the detailed spreadsheet attached to this thread as a compressed file. Scores are from 100 to 0 (100 is the best and 0 is the worst). Those that are technically not presently sovereign nations have dashes where their ranks should be and if a country was not included in any of the twelve studies used here, they received an automatic zero for that particular score.

United States 1 84.14
European Union - 60.85
China (Mainland) 2 52.26
Russia 3 49.94
France 4 48.64
United Kingdom 5 46.83
Italy 6 42.50
Belgium 7 40.38
Germany 8 39.28
Japan 9 38.72
Qatar 10 38.39
Netherlands 11 35.81
Ireland 12 35.54
Spain 13 35.53
Finland 14 35.23
Austria 15 35.02
Luxembourg 16 34.69
Portugal 17 34.31
Canada 18 34.27
Slovakia 19 34.08
Greece 20 33.44
Slovenia 21 33.35
Panama 22 33.08
Indonesia 23 32.44
Australia 24 32.34
South Korea 25 32.19
Peru 26 32.14
India 27 31.89
Norway 28 31.68
Switzerland 29 31.49
Iran 30 31.48
Iceland 31 31.09
Sweden 32 31.05
New Zealand 33 31.03
Denmark 34 30.88
South Africa 35 30.71
Ghana 36 30.25
Chile 37 29.99
Singapore 38 29.81
United Arab Emirates 39 29.55
Brazil 40 29.41
Czech Republic 41 29.40
Argentina 42 29.14
Estonia 43 29.13
Poland 44 29.09
Mexico 45 29.02
Lithuania 46 28.92
Saudi Arabia 47 28.89
Hungary 48 28.80
Uruguay 49 28.79
Malta 50 28.60
Kuwait 51 28.58
Costa Rica 52 28.44
Cyprus 53 28.25
Latvia 54 28.23
Mauritius 55 28.12
Bahamas 56 27.86
Malaysia 57 27.72
Barbados 58 27.60
Romania 59 27.50
Israel 60 27.47
Bulgaria 61 27.41
Thailand 62 27.17
Turkey 63 27.10
Bahrain 64 27.01
Oman 65 26.98
Trinidad and Tobago 66 26.95
Ukraine 67 26.94
Mongolia 68 26.83
Croatia 69 26.82
Venezuela 70 26.60
El Salvador 71 26.52
Hong Kong (China) - 26.37
Belize 72 26.37
Jamaica 73 26.33
Philippines 74 26.15
Armenia 75 26.14
Paraguay 76 26.03
Kazakhstan 77 25.85
Ecuador 78 25.68
Fiji 79 25.62
Suriname 80 25.62
Bolivia 81 25.59
Georgia 82 25.55
Nicaragua 83 25.50
Cape Verde 84 25.43
Dominican Republic 85 25.43
Colombia 86 25.41
Algeria 87 25.40
Tunisia 88 25.15
Guatemala 89 25.12
Jordan 90 25.08
Sri Lanka 91 25.07
Vietnam 92 25.04
Morocco 93 24.86
Azerbaijan 94 24.78
Moldova 95 24.78
Macedonia 96 24.71
Egypt 97 24.65
Papua New Guinea 98 24.57
Namibia 99 24.44
Honduras 100 24.30
Nigeria 101 24.08
Cuba 102 24.01
Belarus 103 24.01
Lebanon 104 23.99
Kyrgyzstan 105 23.86
Cambodia 106 23.73
Pakistan 107 23.67
Bangladesh 108 23.66
Brunei 109 23.65
Bosnia and Herzegovina 110 23.45
Uzbekistan 111 23.32
Syria 112 23.26
Libya 113 23.21
Mali 114 23.08
Gabon 115 23.04
Tajikistan 116 23.01
Botswana 117 22.91
Congo (Brazzaville) 118 22.60
Montenegro 119 22.49
Senegal 120 22.31
Laos 121 22.27
Mauritania 122 22.25
Mozambique 123 21.98
Myanmar 124 21.51
Kenya 125 21.51
Equatorial Guinea 126 21.40
Serbia 127 21.09
Bhutan 128 21.07
Cameroon 129 21.04
Côte d'Ivoire 130 20.73
Yemen 131 20.72
Djibouti 132 20.71
Nepal 133 20.71
Turkmenistan 134 20.70
Central African Republic 135 20.66
Comoros 136 20.59
Albania 137 20.42
Iraq 138 20.36
Guyana 139 20.17
Zambia 140 19.99
Madagascar 141 19.31
Swaziland 142 19.01
Benin 143 18.97
Sudan 144 18.93
Gambia 145 18.01
Tanzania 146 17.97
Uganda 147 17.79
Samoa 148 17.57
Antigua and Barbuda 149 17.50
Togo 150 17.17
Niger 151 17.06
Maldives 152 17.01
Rwanda 153 16.98
Angola 154 16.96
Grenada 155 16.89
Burkina Faso 156 16.85
Guinea-Bissau 157 16.71
Burundi 158 16.64
Sierra Leone 159 16.55
Malawi 160 16.38
Monaco 161 16.37
Haiti 162 16.36
Guinea 163 16.15
San Marino 164 16.15
Ethiopia 165 16.11
Taiwan - 16.04
Macau (China) - 15.95
Palau 166 15.66
Congo (Kinshasa) 167 15.66
Chad 168 15.65
Zimbabwe 169 15.49
St. Kitts and Nevis 170 15.45
Afghanistan 171 15.30
Eritrea 172 15.09
Tonga 173 14.92
Vanuatu 174 14.74
Lesotho 175 14.69
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 176 14.50
St. Lucia 177 14.39
Dominica 178 14.24
Kiribati 179 13.86
Liberia 180 12.88
Seychelles 181 12.49
East Timor 182 12.34
São Tomé and Príncipe 183 10.85
Andorra 184 10.80
Liechtenstein 185 10.74
Solomon Islands 186 10.14
Nauru 187 9.79
Micronesia 188 9.65
Palestine - 8.53
North Korea 189 7.09
Marshall Islands 190 6.97
Somalia 191 5.92
Tuvalu 192 3.24
Vatican City 193 0.00

World Average 22.64

[torero]

U talk politics, otherwise N. Korea may be better than USA in their people eyes, and you must be close minded felthy american and u don't have any clue about many countries in your list as well as you have no judgement experience!

[blackwhiteblue]

torero are so right i once observed a amarican history class.. i tell ya its pure brainwash

[Antros]

Thanks man!!

[Aes_RocK]

i really hope the us isnt as good as it gets in this world... i live here, there must be a better place